MA Global Studies: A European Perspective

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Two-year programme. Students attend LSE for either their first or second year and also attend, for a year, one of the following participating institutions: Leipzig, Roskilde, Vienna, or Wroclaw. Students follow the MSc Global History programme at the LSE:

MSc Global History

Programme code: TMGLHY2

Full-year programme. Students must take compulsory courses to the value of 2.5 units, a dissertation and optional courses.  Students taking year one of the programme at LSE will need to complete EH479 (6,000 word dissertation) and take one unit of options; students taking year two at LSE will complete EH480 (10,000 word dissertation) and 0.5 units of options.

Paper

Course number and title

1

EH481

Economic Change in Global History: Approaches and Analysis (H)

2 & 3

Two of the following:

 

EH482

Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, c1000-1800

EH483

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th centuries

 

HY423

Empire, Colonialism and Globalization

4

Either

 

EH479

Dissertation: Global History (H) and courses to the value of one full unit from the following (if not already taken under paper 2)

Or

 

EH480

Dissertation: MSc Global History and courses to the value of 0.5 units from the following (if not already taken under paper 2):

EH402

Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Economic History (H)

EH404

India and the World Economy (H)

EH408

International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (H) 

EH409

Chinese Economy in Transition: 1850-1950 (H)

EH412

Research Topics in Economic History A (H) (withdrawn 15/16)

EH413

African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H)

EH419

Research Topics in Economic History B (H) (withdrawn 15/16)

EH422

Topics in Quantitative Economic History

EH423

Japan and Korea as Developing Economics (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH424

The British Economy in Global Perspective, 1000-2000 (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH426

Quantitative Topics in Economic History I: Cross-section and Panel Data (H)**

EH427

Quantitative Topics in Economic History II: Time Series and Economic Dynamics (H)**

EH428

History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH429

History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (n/a 15/16)

EH447

Great Depressions in Economic History (H)  (n/a 15/16)

EH451

Latin American Development: political economy of growth (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH452

Latin American Development and Economic History (H)  (n/a 15/16)

 

EH463

The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (H)

EH464

The Historical Context of Business (H)

EH466

Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe (H) (withdrawn 15/16) 

EH467

Epidemics: epidemic disease in history, 1348-2000 (H) (n/a 15/16)  

 

EH476

The Economic History of War

EH482

Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, c1000-1800

 

EH483

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th centuries

 

EH486

Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c1600-1860(H)

 

EH487

International Economic Institutions since World War I (H)

Notes    ** These courses cannot be combined with EH422